Joanne Atlee - University of Waterloo

Professor: Joanne Atlee
Department: Computer Science
College: University of Waterloo
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: PD10
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Terribly boring class like all the other PD courses. Nothing but politcal indoctrination.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: CS247
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Assignments are not properly specified and do not represent anything on the midterms or the exams. Specs for assignments were vague, lose marks for something that wasn't specified. No proper public tests for marmoset, you wouldn't even know if your program passes the main public tests. Horrible structure as assignments did not prepare you for exams
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: CS247
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her slides are great, but blackboard notes are difficult to keep up with. Not the best at teaching for a class, but great individually. Also does a good job of maintaining Piazza, the discussion forum. The course itself was pretty interesting. The textbooks may be more useful than the lecs for certain topics. Some asst questions were vague.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: CS846
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Amazing professor. This is a seminar type course, but she really gets involved. She answers questions really clearly and the final marks are more than fair.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: CS246
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Disliked students and was not interested in teaching. Was horribly boring. Taught us "X is right, Y is wrong" and then marked Y right on the exam (verified by many of my classmates) in a couple instances. Class was almost useless. Have to disagree with commenter below, I can only imagine SE 101 sucking with her, and Bill Bishop was great in SE 101.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: CS246
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pretty boring, exam was really long, projects were assigned with unclear specifications and were re-defined close to the due date.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: CS246
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good lecturer, the course itself was a little dry at times. She was routinely interrupted by the garbage truck outside (ha). Did a good job!
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
SE 101 would have been utterly horrible with anyone else teaching it. Professor Atlee presented clear, relevant material and answered questions well. She was an excellent SE director and took a genuine interest in her students. Willing to admit and correct mistakes (e.g. on quizzes and exams). Bugs in Writing textbook is AWFUL.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: CS246
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
BORING. Read straight from slides, really not that interesting at all
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
oh man what a great job she did !!! 41 out of 108 people in the 2009 class got kicked out of the program. They simply added too many crazy technical courses into our 1b term.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Just because she is nice doesn't mean she knows how to teach
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
People can say what they will about the course, but Prof. Atlee is a genuinely nice person. She tries hard, does a good job at lecturing, and is always someone you can talk to. I'm glad she's SE director.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The more I go to this woman's lectures the more I realize that software can't be engineered. All the softies please switch to EE and save yourself from a dark future.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Jo is such a great prof. The material helps for the future, and she definately made the material easier. Plus she's very approachable
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is NOT a useless prof... She does a fair job. She is indeed kind and very easily approachable. The course (SE101) itself is useless though.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A useless prof teaching a useless course; life in waterloo just doesn't get better than that!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I went to one class, and never went again.... She is useless
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The worst class ever because of the prof.....
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: CS246
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Took course way back in 95. Atlee was new to the course but was very helpful.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SE101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
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